Not Your Usual Recipe for Irish Soda Bread, This One is Whole Grain and Hearty | No Plain Jane's Kit

Ingredients

• 1 3/4 cups unbleached all-purpose flour
• 1 cup wholewheat flour, (I use King Arthur White Whole Wheat flour because it is milder tasting than regular whole wheat flour), plus more for shaping
• 4 tablespoons cold unsalted butter, cut into tablespoon-sized pieces + 1-2 tablespoons melted butter for brushing finished bread
• 2 teaspoons baking soda (no need to adjust for altitude)
• 1 3/4 teaspoons salt (I use either fine grained kosher salt or fine grained sea salt
• 2 tablespoons brown sugar
• 1/4 cup wheat bran
• 1/4 cup oat bran
• 1/4 cup milled or ground flax seed
• 1 tablespoon flax seed
• 1 tablespoon sesame seeds
• 1 large egg
• About 1 3/4 cups buttermilk